The lead story on tonight's news is that 25 000 migrants have crossed the Chanel this year to try to obtain residence in the UK. This is more than double the number last year and three times the number two years ago. Yet he government promised that via Brexit they would "control our borders". Why doesn't the government keep its promises, asks the Labour Opposition spokesperson, Nick Thomas-Symons? Priti Patel not fit to be Home Secretary and the Home Office is not fit for purpose. There is talk of turning the boats back, or sending the potential mitigants off to ...
I blogged a while back about Lydiate footpath No.5, which links Southport Road to Eagar Lane, as a bridge over a stream needed replacing. Here's a link back to that posting:- Well, it took a bit longer but the new bridge is now in place. However, concerns have been raised that the step up to the bright blue bridge is too high at around 14 inches**. Lydiate Parish Cllr. Edie Pope* tells me that a Sefton Council officer agrees it's too high a step so I'm guessing that an additional step will be added? Here's Edie at the bridge:- ...
Second paragraph of third chapter:As we shall see later, Paul is writing this [Galatians 1:15-17] in his own defense. He has apparently been accused of getting his "gospel" secondhand from the Jerusalem apostles. His opponents are therefore going over his head and appealing to Peter, James, and the rest, like someone objecting to the way a band was playing a cover from an old Beatles song and phoning up Paul McCartney himself to check on how it should really be played. Paul is therefore insisting that his message was his own; he had gotten it from Jesus himself, not from ...
When a person here at home comes forward to say they are sexually assaulted, we expect a criminal investigation. We also expect debates in our legislations and police funding why further crimes are not prevented. What we will not expect is for the victim to be disappeared and reappeared by a state media while there is neither investigation nor freedom for the person being sexually assaulted to be approached. In China, when tennis star Peng Shuai accused former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault, she is confined into further danger and injustice. Our Government has stayed eerily quiet when major ...
Well, yesterday was gruesome. Horrible gastric symptoms in the evening; I am a little better today but my appetite has completely disappeared and I have not yet got out of bed. It has also become clear how I got infected last weekend. No blame at all to the person who I caught it from; we took all sensible precautions, but in the end it's risk reduction and not elimination. Anne is a lot better than me, but still very far from 100%. We are both better off then the husband of a friend who died of Covid, aged 62, in ...
Our planet needs our immediate attention. It is clear, at least to me, that there aren't easy answers to some of the global environmental challenges. Will actions of one individual make any difference? How can I change or improve the way I live my life to protect the planet? We have "mountains to climb" so why bother? I can decide to eat less meat, to recycle more or use other means of traveling. The latter is an actual problem, especially when you live abroad. It would be great to travel to continental Europe by train, however it is almost impossible ...
Sun, 15:37: "He doesn't have MPs who are devoted to him because they admire the calibre and consistency of his character because you can't esteem what doesn't exist. He hasn't got loyalists, only lackeys. He inspires no true believers, he simply attracts hangers-on." https://t.co/TrudB1IQPA Sun, 16:27: Art at the Imperial War Museum North, in Manchester https://t.co/CSrFwIesC2 Sun, 18:29: The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde https://t.co/SQaeRBLXT1 Sun, 19:13: RT @bwalsh: @nwbrux It is by no means her strongest ("Once Upon a River" or "Bellman & Black" for me), but I prefer Diane Setterfield on a... Sun, 20:16: 2021 Worldcon Business Meeting ...
I had missed the important role played by A-ha in promoting the spread of electric cars, and in particular the very smart campaign tactic they used.
Commenting ahead of the vote on the government's social care plans, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care Spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said: These social care plans are two broken promises in one. Boris Johnson promised in his manifesto not to raise national insurance tax and that no-one would have to sell their home to pay for care. Now struggling families face being hammered by unfair tax rises, while still facing losing their homes to fund care costs. The Liberal Democrats will oppose these unfair, divisive plans in Parliament this week. We will continue fighting for a fair and long-term solution ...
Announced in 2015 with a great fanfare from the Tory Government and the Labour Council the China Town Development lies derelict and abandoned on a major site at the edge of Liverpool City Centre. The original company dealing with it ... Continue reading →
The Guardian reports that Boris Johnson faces calls for an inquiry into treasury minister Lucy Frazer and claims of an "untenable" potential conflict of interest involving a £15bn government contract with a firm headed by her husband. The paper says that Frazer moved to the Treasury in September and discloses her husband, David Leigh, is the boss of recruitment firm Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) in the latest list of ministerial interests. However, the firm has a seven-year public sector resourcing contract with Crown Commercial Service, an executive agency of the Cabinet Office, overseeing the supply of temporary government workers through ...
Good morning, gentle reader (although not all of you seem to be particularly gentle at the moment...)! Yes, Monday comes around again, as inevitable as a tax return – by the way, the deadline for online submission is just ten weeks away – and thus it is my turn to keep the site turning. Whilst much Liberal Democrat attention is focussed upon North Shropshire, we're in the last ten days of the campaign in Old Bexley and Sidcup, where Simone Reynolds is lying our flag. She improved our vote share from 3.3% to 8.3% in 2019, and it would be ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2021 Strawberrybank - closed at Perth Road (for a distance of 40metres) for 5 weeks for chimney repairs. Briarwood Terrace - closed from Tuesday 23 November for 2 days for carriageway resurfacing. Riverside Avenue - off‑peak temporary traffic lights from Thursday 25 to Saturday 27 November for BT work. Forthcoming Roadworks Blackness Road (at Seymour Street) - temporary traffic lights from Monday 29 November to Wednesday 1 December for BT work.
